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Book Review of “The Writer’s Journey” by Christopher Vogler

I’ll make this simple. I’m a relative newcomer to writing, but have read a good-sized pile of “how-to” writing books: Stephen King, Anne Lamott, Natalie Goldberg, James Scott Bell, Donald Maas, Larry Brooks, Chris Roerden, Randy Ingermanson, Strunk and White, Nancy Kress, Rennie Browne, to name more than a few that come to mind. “The …

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Ten writing lessons I learned in 2010

1. The business of writing is diametrically opposed to the art of writing. 2. I’m not nearly as bad a “serious” writer as I thought  I was. The corollary: I’m not nearly as good a “serious” writer as I think I am. 3. Modern technology makes writing, editing, revising, evaluating and preparing manuscripts incredibly easy. …

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